Use Focus on Apple Watch Ultra
Focus helps you stay in the moment when you want to concentrate on an activity. Focus can reduce distractions—allowing only notifications you want to receive (ones that match your focus)—and lets other people and apps know you’re busy.
You can choose from provided Focus options—Personal, Sleep, and Work. Or you can create a custom Focus on your iPhone, choosing who is allowed to contact you, which apps can send you notifications, and whether or not you receive time-sensitive notifications.
Note: To have your Focus settings shared across all your devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID, open Settings on your iPhone, tap Focus, then turn on Share Across Devices.
Turn a Focus on or off
Press the side button to open Control Center.
Touch and hold the current Focus button, then tap a Focus.
If no Focus is on, Control Center shows the Do Not Disturb button
.Choose a Focus option—On, On for 1 hour, or On until this evening/On until tomorrow morning.
To turn off a Focus, just tap its button in Control Center.
When a Focus is active, its icon appears at the top of the watch face, next to the time in apps, and in Control Center.
Create your own Focus
On your iPhone, go to Settings > Focus.
Tap
, choose a Focus, then follow the onscreen instructions.If you create a custom focus, you can choose a color and an icon to represent it, and enter a name for it.
Choose a Focus watch face
You can choose a different watch face to display when each Focus is active. For example, when Work Focus is active, your Apple Watch Ultra can display the Simple watch face.
On your iPhone, go to Settings > Focus.
Tap a Focus, then tap Choose below the Apple Watch Ultra image.
Select a watch face, then tap Done.
Create a Focus schedule
On Apple Watch Ultra you can schedule when each Focus occurs—you can even choose to have a Focus start at different times of the day. For example, you could schedule the Work Focus to start at 9 a.m. and end at noon, Monday through Friday. From noon to 1 p.m. you may have no Focus or have a Personal Focus take over. Then, start the Work Focus again from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch Ultra.Tap Focus, tap a Focus—Work, for example—then tap “Add new.”
Tap the From and To fields and enter the times you want the Focus to begin and end.
Scroll down, then choose days when the Focus will be active.
Tap
in the top-left corner to save the Focus.Repeat this process to add other events to the Focus.
Disable or delete a Focus schedule
To disable or delete a Focus schedule, do either of the following:
Disable a Focus schedule: Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch Ultra, tap Focus, then tap a Focus. Tap a schedule, scroll down, then turn off Enabled.Turn on Enabled when you want the schedule to be active again.
Delete a Focus schedule: Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch Ultra, tap Focus, then tap a Focus. Tap a schedule, scroll down, then tap Delete.
For more information about Focus, see the iPhone User Guide.